Search for anarthrous nouns in Greek that are translated with the article

Would it be possible to find all anarthrous nouns in Greek, but only those that are translated in English with an article.

Something like:

1. First search the Greek text for all anarthrous nouns

2. Then narrow the results down to only those that are translated with an article in a specific translation.

I know how to do step 1, but I am unsure if step 2 would be possible.

Michel

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

Dave Hooton

2. Then narrow the results down to only those that are translated with an article in a specific translation.

As a general approach to finding nouns where the article "the" has been added to the translation consider a Bible search of a reverse interlinear:-

(the NOTEQUALS <lbs-morph+el ~ D???>) BEFORE 2 WORDS <lbs-morph+el ~ N????>

The term in parentheses finds occurrences of "the" which were not translated from the Greek article. The next term states that "the" must be before 1 to 2 words of a noun. The 2 WORD proximity is to allow for "the Holy Spirit" where "the" is added because of "Spirit". There could be spurious results because of this but it's better than excluding the valid ones.

You could replace the last term with a list of your anarthrous Greek nouns e.g.

(the NOTEQUALS <lbs-morph+el ~ D???>) BEFORE 2 WORDS (noun1, noun2, noun3, ...)

Michel Pauw

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/637641#Comment_637641

That makes sense, thank you!

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/637641#Comment_637641

There could be spurious results because of this but it's better than excluding the valid ones.

Another term is

the BEFORE 0 CHARS <lbs-morph+el ~ N????>

which finds "the" where one or more Greek words are translated as an idiom e.g. (ESV) "part of the night" Mt 24:43, "day of the week" Mt 28:1.

So the full query becomes

(the NOTEQUALS <lbs-morph+el ~ D???>) BEFORE 2 WORDS <lbs-morph+el ~ N????> OR (the BEFORE 0 CHARS <lbs-morph+el ~ N????>)

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

1. First search the Greek text for all anarthrous nouns

Anarthrous nouns can have definite usage so translation with an article is appropriate for the context.

Keep Smiling [:)]

Michel Pauw

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/637805#Comment_637805

Anarthrous nouns can have definite usage so translation with an article is appropriate for the context.

Of course, I know! Nevertheless nobody still has the answer why or when exactly the article is omitted. Any research on the article could be helpful to find an hypothesis for that question.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/637995#Comment_637995

... nobody still has the answer why or when exactly the article is omitted. Any research on the article could be helpful to find an hypothesis for that question.

English omission of article varies when comparing translations.

(the NOTEQUALS <lbs-morph+el ~ D???>) BEFORE 2 WORDS <lbs-morph+el ~ N????>

Sometimes the New Revised Standard Version reverse interlinear tagging of the Septuagint has a false positive search result.

Keep Smiling [:)]